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Cheltenham Literature Festival: What’s in a name?
My first evening at the festival started with a conversation with an older lady who had got up to let…
Featured Poem: The Stone Beach
In the last of our poetry recommendations for this week Reader outreach worker and Reader Online editor Katie Peters chooses…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Eric Hobsbawm
I have just heard Eric Hobsbawm, amongst the first of the speakers at this year's festival, talking at length about…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: The Inner Sanctum
In the first of her reports from the Cheltenham Literature Festival Jen Tomkins picks up her press pack and gets…
Featured Poem: Morning Mudslinging
Marion Leibl has chosen 'Morning Mudslinging' by Erich Fried as our featured poem for today. She writes: 'Sometimes I meet…
Cheltenham Literature Festival
The time has come for me to leave The Reader office, pack my bags and head to Cheltenham for this…
Reader Editor Philip Davis on BBC Radio 3
Tomorrow (Friday October 5) Philip Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, is going to be talking with Ian Macmillan about…
Featured Poem: The Dream
Today is National Poetry Day and this year its focus is dreams, a subject that poets (and readers alike) are…
Sean O’Brien Wins the Forward Poetry Prize
Sean O'Brien has become the first person to win the Forward Poetry Prize three times, picking up the £10,000 poobah…
Recommended Reads: Stuart … A Life backwards
This recommendation is posted by Sara Pendergast, writer, painter, working in Washington State. Stuart ... A Life Backwards: Alexander Masters’…
Featured Poem: Hamatreya
So it's my turn to recommend a poem and I choose 'Hamatreya' by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson is better known…
Author Readings and Workshops Near Liverpool
Manchester-based publisher Comma Press is promoting a new book of short stories entitled Elsewhere: Stories From Small Town Europe and…
